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Alex1975
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Dropped into the range after work tonight and as I walked in there were 6 or 7 beautiful Callaway tour bags stuffed with golf porn. Everything a Callaway lover could wish for. I did not have an appointment but I managed to catch the guy’s attention and ask all the questions I wanted to, I even managed to get a play with the X24 Hot 7 iron. It felt kind of fat at address and that’s not a good look to me but it did not hit the ball fat at all, a very sweet club to strike, thinking back though the club did not really talk to me. I am not sure they were the best 3 or 4 seven irons I had ever hit and I had not put my spikes on so that may have been it. They are only selling 2000 sets of X24 Hot in Europe.
I took the bay next to the Cally guy and a fellow arrived for his appointment. The Cally guy asked the customer how far he usually hits his 7 iron and the customer told him about 170 yards (I can hear Homer groaning from here). The Customer hit 5 or 6 shots with his own 7 iron and the Cally guy told him he was landing the ball at the 145 mark pretty consistently at a height of about 90 feet( I think it was feet) and about 92 mph swing speed. He then tried the Diablo’s and started playing with shaft flex and stuff; I tuned out and started working on my program. When I tuned back, the guy was hitting the X24s(X24s are only off the peg clubs and don’t come with a 3 iron). The customer was landing the X24 7 iron on the 160 mark with the same swing speed give or take and the exact same height. You could see the customer tying to work out if that was even possible as it would take the same ball path if it was the same swing speed and ball height. I can only guess the ball speed off the face comes into play here? The guy bought the clubs.
Anyways, I found it all very interesting stuff.
As for my program I was working on getting my weight onto my right side at impact and keeping my left arm straight, the former took care of the over swing I was told about and I hit the ball SWEET all evening. Huge thanks to all who helped me with that.
Al
I took the bay next to the Cally guy and a fellow arrived for his appointment. The Cally guy asked the customer how far he usually hits his 7 iron and the customer told him about 170 yards (I can hear Homer groaning from here). The Customer hit 5 or 6 shots with his own 7 iron and the Cally guy told him he was landing the ball at the 145 mark pretty consistently at a height of about 90 feet( I think it was feet) and about 92 mph swing speed. He then tried the Diablo’s and started playing with shaft flex and stuff; I tuned out and started working on my program. When I tuned back, the guy was hitting the X24s(X24s are only off the peg clubs and don’t come with a 3 iron). The customer was landing the X24 7 iron on the 160 mark with the same swing speed give or take and the exact same height. You could see the customer tying to work out if that was even possible as it would take the same ball path if it was the same swing speed and ball height. I can only guess the ball speed off the face comes into play here? The guy bought the clubs.
Anyways, I found it all very interesting stuff.
As for my program I was working on getting my weight onto my right side at impact and keeping my left arm straight, the former took care of the over swing I was told about and I hit the ball SWEET all evening. Huge thanks to all who helped me with that.
Al
